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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1916691" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Just to be sure, again, it's not really called "Trash" but "Recently Deleted," so to get rid of them immediately you would need to delete them from the "Recently Deleted" album, on the iPhone. I'll repeat, on the iPhone. You will immediately recover the space on the iPhone doing that. That deletions will also quickly be synced to iCloud and they will disappear from there as well. </p><p></p><p>But you also asked about iCloud. As Lisa said, if you delete from the iPhone and it's syncing to iCloud, the images will also delete from iCloud. Re-reading your initial post, I couldn't tell if that is what you want, or what you want to avoid, so tell us what you want at the end and the advice will get better, I think.</p><p></p><p>If you want to keep them in iCloud but not on the phone you can continue reading, otherwise you can stop here.</p><p></p><p>To keep them from being deleted in the cloud, disable cloud sync before deleting them from the "Recently Deleted" album. That way the change is only on the phone, not synced to the cloud. However, doing that also means any new pictures you take won't be synced to the cloud, either, so you need to decide what is more important to you. If you have already deleted and they are already in the "Recently Deleted" on iCloud, turn off sync, then in the iCloud version of Photos go to "Recently Deleted" folder, select all images, then click on "Recover" and all of them will be put back in the main library. That recovery won't sync to the iPhone because you turned that off.</p><p></p><p>One other option is to remove the images from Photos in iCloud but if you still want them somewhere, keep the image files somewhere out of the app. If you had a Mac that worked with Photos, it would be relatively easy. But it still can be done. Go to iCloud.com and log in. Open Photos. Find the "Recently Deleted" folder and verify that the images you deleted on the iPhone are there. Select them all, then click on Recover to take them out of the Recently Deleted album. Find them again in the main library and select all of them to put into some new folder for ease of working with them. Go to that new folder, select all of them, then click on the cloud icon with the down arrow on the top bar. Here is a shot of the menu bar showing the icon as the fifth from the left. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]36758[/ATTACH]</p><p>Doing that will open a dialog box which will show that there is a zip file to be downloaded and for you to verify where you want that file to be saved. Once you have the location you want, click the "Save" button and the download will start. For 800 images, you might have to break it up into parts or the download will be very, very large. You mentioned that your Mac is old, and that you used a computer at an internet cafe. You can do this there and save the zip file(s) to a USB thumb drive that is large enough to hold the files. Anyway, once you have the image zip file(s) downloaded, you can delete the images again in iCloud Photos to put them into the "Recently Deleted" album and then select all and delete them from "Recently Deleted." That deletion will replicate to the phone fairly quickly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1916691, member: 396914"] Just to be sure, again, it's not really called "Trash" but "Recently Deleted," so to get rid of them immediately you would need to delete them from the "Recently Deleted" album, on the iPhone. I'll repeat, on the iPhone. You will immediately recover the space on the iPhone doing that. That deletions will also quickly be synced to iCloud and they will disappear from there as well. But you also asked about iCloud. As Lisa said, if you delete from the iPhone and it's syncing to iCloud, the images will also delete from iCloud. Re-reading your initial post, I couldn't tell if that is what you want, or what you want to avoid, so tell us what you want at the end and the advice will get better, I think. If you want to keep them in iCloud but not on the phone you can continue reading, otherwise you can stop here. To keep them from being deleted in the cloud, disable cloud sync before deleting them from the "Recently Deleted" album. That way the change is only on the phone, not synced to the cloud. However, doing that also means any new pictures you take won't be synced to the cloud, either, so you need to decide what is more important to you. If you have already deleted and they are already in the "Recently Deleted" on iCloud, turn off sync, then in the iCloud version of Photos go to "Recently Deleted" folder, select all images, then click on "Recover" and all of them will be put back in the main library. That recovery won't sync to the iPhone because you turned that off. One other option is to remove the images from Photos in iCloud but if you still want them somewhere, keep the image files somewhere out of the app. If you had a Mac that worked with Photos, it would be relatively easy. But it still can be done. Go to iCloud.com and log in. Open Photos. Find the "Recently Deleted" folder and verify that the images you deleted on the iPhone are there. Select them all, then click on Recover to take them out of the Recently Deleted album. Find them again in the main library and select all of them to put into some new folder for ease of working with them. Go to that new folder, select all of them, then click on the cloud icon with the down arrow on the top bar. Here is a shot of the menu bar showing the icon as the fifth from the left. [ATTACH type="full"]36758[/ATTACH] Doing that will open a dialog box which will show that there is a zip file to be downloaded and for you to verify where you want that file to be saved. Once you have the location you want, click the "Save" button and the download will start. For 800 images, you might have to break it up into parts or the download will be very, very large. You mentioned that your Mac is old, and that you used a computer at an internet cafe. You can do this there and save the zip file(s) to a USB thumb drive that is large enough to hold the files. Anyway, once you have the image zip file(s) downloaded, you can delete the images again in iCloud Photos to put them into the "Recently Deleted" album and then select all and delete them from "Recently Deleted." That deletion will replicate to the phone fairly quickly. [/QUOTE]
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